Chalet's over! I had a great time catching up with people. Anyways I didn't see a lot of photos taken..this is bad. We have no collection of these memories! All the stupid waiting at the wet and wild shelter, all the screaming atop the rides, the crazy spin-the-bowl thingy at the playground, the bbq, the murderer games. You guys made this possible and I hope everyone had fun..look forward to prom! HEHEHEHHEHEHE!

Class Chalet cum Class Gathering

Hey! I am here to post the details of the coming class chalet cum gathering.

Date:
27 November (Tuesday) to 29 Novemeber (Thursday) 2007

Address
Peoples' Association Pasir Ris Holiday Flats
No. 101, Elias Road Singapore 519886

How to get there?
Take Mrt to Pasir Ris Mrt and take bus no. 403 and alight at the round-a-about. (see the map!)

Check-in Time:
4pm

Meeting time?
I suggest u all meet up at about 3.30pm at Pasir Ris Mrt (I won't be around, i will be going there straight with all the barang barang)

What are we going to there?
27th November 2007:
Once checked in, we will first prepare for our dinner (BBQ). Everyone will have to play a part. There will be 4 BBQ pits(mini) with 5 people (max) attached to it. Those being assign to their respective BBQ pits will be in charge of cooking food in ur unique way. The rest will be preparing the raw food and distribute them according to the 4 groups.

There will be some sort of informal graduation ceremony going on after we finished cooking the food. We gonna toast! And MRS tan will be giving out the special gift!!!

Afterwhich, it is free time! Own self own target! Wanna play mahjong? PLAY! Wanna watch movie? WATCH! Wanna play basketball? PLAY! Wanna go beach and see stars? GO! etc...

28th November 2007:
I'm not very sure are u guys interested in doing kaYaking(need to pay)? If you are, please let me know ASAP! i need to book the facilities at the nearby Sea Sport Club. Alternatively, we can play beach volleyball, swim at the beach, go escape theme park or even cycle! This meant for those who are staying till the second day. We may have to settle our dinner outside.

29th November 2007:
Not too sure yet...We need to clear up the place

What to bring?
Well...As usual, bring your clothes, shoes (complusory) if u are doing kayaking, towel and undergarments, toiletries, your handphone charge with the additional socket, the fixed charge of $20 bucks for the chalet, variable charge for the second day lunch and dinner and entertainment, DVDs and VCDs, mahjong sets, soccer or basketball court.

NOTE: The chalet is rather small, nonetheless we have 2 units which is about 4 rooms, 2 kitchen and 2 living rooms. There is NO two-pin plug provided! Please bring it yourself. Best still, bring those multi-plug 1. The chalet is located very near the pasir ris park playground and beach. On top of that there is a basketball court, a mini-arcade room, jackpot room and a big field. So...YOU MIGHT WANT TO BRING MORE COINS, BASKET OR SOCCER BALLs!

IMPORTANT THINGS TO NOTE FOR H2 ECONS PAPER 14/11/07

from emb

Dear all,

Most of you are glad the essay paper is over. So what's for case
studies? As usual, my take is NEVER spot as Cambridge is avoiding to
be predictable and will catch you by surprise.

Though my take is to study everything, we can still draw
some 'hints' from the essay paper and have some focus for case study
tomorrow.

Below is input from Mr Andrew Tan and myself.

REMEMBER: IT'S NOT A PREDICTION! YOU WILL BE REALLY SORRY AND UPSET
IF WHAT IS BELOW DOESN'T APPEAR FOR CASE STUDY. THIS IS JUST FOR YOU
TO FOCUS - STILL, STUDY EVERYTHING IS THE BEST.



MICRO
(1) A possible MICRO-CASE STUDY on MARKET STRUCTURE and ECONOMIES OF
SCALE.

Cambridge seems to be have carefully avoided setting a 'meaty
question' on market structure. The question on monopoly is only
scratching the surface - perhaps they are " indirectly" dropping a
strong hint that they are reserving the "meaty questions" for case
study tomorrow! Part(b) which is on alternative theories and not the
usual market structure question reinforces this suspicion.


(2) Demand/supply determinants and govt intervention.
Possible case - oil-related. Govt intervention in this context is to
prevent both "cost of living" ( equity reason - avoid socio-
political unrest like in Myanmar) as well as "business cost" from
spiralling out of control ( avoid oil-induced inflationary
pressures derailing economic growth).
The other possible case study involving demand/supply and govt
intervention could be the currency markets e.g. fixing exchange
rates.


REMINDER: IT DOES NOT MEAN A CONTEXT ON OIL WILL APPEAR TOMORROW -
IT'S ALWAYS A HOT ISSUE BUT CAMBRIDGE JUST WON'T SET A QUESTION ON
IT. RATHER, THE CONCEPTS DEMAND AND SUPPLY ARE NOT TESTED.


MACRO:
(3) They have noticeably avoided questions related to monetary
policy (be it interest rate - Monetary Transmission Mechanism or
more important to Singapore will be exchange rate centred policy
emphsise by MAS and inflation (overheating) for essays. A topic to
watch out for tomorrow.

(4) They are also leaving room for questions on international trade,
protectionism and exchange rate for case study. So, the so-called
hot issues might make an appearance here. But, since a question on
BOT deficits appeared in the essay, the focus is unlikely to be on
US-China Trade deficit. We have actually covered on this issue in
post-prelim lecture 2 essay by CJC.

(5) Unemployment? Perhaps, in the context of our ageing
population.

(6) Rise of China/India. This issue has many possible applications
spanning the entire spectrum of macro economics.

Our prelim is on this context and many case studies by other JCs are
also on this issue.

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